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(No Model.)

J. M. APPELBAUM.

GABMBNT POCKET.

Patented Dec. 17, 1895.

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE, y

JACOB 1li. APPELBAUM, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONEIIALF TO FREDERICK H. SAMUELS, OF SAME PLACE.

GARMENTQPOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 551,429, dated December 17, 1895.

Application filed July Sl, 1895. Serial No. 557,693. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JACOB M. APPELBAUM, of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pockets for Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in safety-pockets for garments, and h as for its object, more particularly, to provide a pocket for garments adapted to be worn by persons when engaged in pastimes or occupations necessitating the continued movement of the body or parts thereof, whereby the articles, if carried in the ordinary pockets, would be caused to gradually work out and fall to the ground.

The invention is also adapted for ordinary garments for carrying money or other valuables, as it provides a pocket from which it becomes difficult for pickpocliets and 'others to extract the contents thereof without detection.

The invention resides in the novel combination, connection, and arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this spccication, wherein like letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l isa face view of a portion of a garment showing my improvement applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a section thereof taken on the line 2 i? of said figure.

In said drawings, II designates the garment fabric having a slit therein at I. To the upper edge of said slit is secured by a row of stitchinga reinforcing-strip of fabric J, which is turned inwardly and secured at its upper inner edge, together with the rear wall of the pocket, by a row of stitching f to the inner side of the fabric Il, thereby forming a flap. To the lower edge of the aforesaid slit is similarly secured an extension-strip of fabric K whereby to heighten the outer wall of the pocket, so as to extend upwardly behind the flap, and L is the pocket, the outer wall of which is secured along its upper edge by a row of stitching g to the inner upper edge of the strip K, and the top edge of the inner' or rear wall of the said pocket is secured by the row of stitching f aforesaid to the inner side of the fabric Il immediately above the top edge of the extension-stri p K and top edge ofthe outer wall of the pocket secured thereto.

M is the inner lining of the garment, and h 71,' are two vertical rows of stitches whereby the flap, consisting' of the portions II and J,

and the extension-strip K are secured together i and to the garment fabric proper.

It will be observed that the outer wall of the pocket extends upwardly beneath the flap to the point directly below where the rear wall of the pocket is secured to the inner side of the flap or garment fabric, that the said iiap is secured down to the fabric by the vertical rows of stitches z lt whereby the mouth of the pocket is maintained in position, the iiap tightly drawn over the saine andthe upper portion of the outer wall of the pocket, and a iirst entrance obtained for said pocket at a distance considerably beneath the mouth thereof, whereby the pocket may be effectually sealed and the articles contained therein prevented from falling out, no matter what the position -of the wearer of the garment may be.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. As an article of manufacture, a garment pocket comprising a piece of garment fabric having a slit therein, a reinforcing strip securedto the upper edge of said slit and to the rear of the fabric, an extension strip secured to the lower edge of the slit extending upwardly behind the reinforcing strip aforesaid, and a pocket having the upper edge of its outer wall secured along the upper edge of the extension strip on the inner side thereof, and the upper edge of the rear wall secured together with the upper edge of the reinforcin strip to the inner side of the, garment fabric immediately above the top edge oi' the eXtension strip and the outer wall of the pocket se cured thereto, substantially as specified.

2. As an article of manufacture, a garment pocket comprising a `piece of garment fabric having a slit therein, a reinforcing strip .I having one edge thereof sewed to the upper edge of said slit and the other edgeturned inwardly and over and sewed to the rear of the fabric,

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an extension strip K sewed to the lower edge of said slit and extending upwardly behind the reinforcing strip J, and @pocket L, having the upper edge of its outer wall secured to the extension strip K along its upper edge by a row of stitching g, and the upper edge of the rear wall secured together with the upper edge of the reinforcing strip J to the rear of the fabric by it row of stitching f immediately above the top edge of the extension strip K and the top edge of the outer'wall of the pocket L secured thereto; said reinforcing Strip J and extension Strip K being secured 

